Quotes About Opportunity

#1. If there was any show I could guest star on, I would want to guest star on 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' because I am such a nerd and I love that show. If there was ever an opportunity to be on that, I would snatch it up.

Atticus Shaffer

#2. College is a singular opportunity to rummage through and luxuriate in ideas, to give your brain a vigorous workout and your soul a thorough investigation, to realize how very large the world is and to contemplate your desired place in it.

Frank Bruni

#3. Life, for the living, is a gift of opportunity; an exercise of the will to choose.

T.F. Hodge

#4. I never look at myself as a closet actor wanting to make music or a closet musician wanting to act - I'm very proud to do both and I don't put one above the other, I'm very grateful and excited by both opportunities - it's really a unique opportunity to do both.

Jared Leto

#5. I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

Patrick Warburton

#6. And so we understand that the atonement of Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to overcome spiritual death that results from sin, and, through making and keeping sacred covenants, to have the blessings of eternal life.

Dallin H. Oaks

#7. I think the opportunity to bring together the people in the world of politics, business and entertainment and have an opportunity to listen to their best learning and thinking is a great opportunity.

Erwin McManus

#8. I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.

Dolph Lundgren

#9. Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

Herbert Hoover

#10. The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#11. To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid.

Luis Figo

#12. I didn't have the opportunity to go to college. I was busy touring since the age of 17.

Tommy Lee

#13. That was opportunity knocking." She shoved the last empty coffee pouch into her pack. "You didn't answer, so it's buggered off to find someone who appreciates it.

Tanya Huff

#14. A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

Alan Arkin

#15. Where are you taking us?" Nico said.
"You should be honored, my boy. You will have the opportunity to join a great army! Just like that silly game you play with cards and dolls."
"They're not dolls! They're figurines! And you can take your great army and -

Rick Riordan

#16. Happy Monday! Live without fear! Face your fears and see them as an OPPORTUNITY for strength and growth. You'll see, once you face them, they disappear!

Tracey Edmonds

#17. I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.

Hilda Solis

#18. If opportunity knocks, let it in. But with the way things are nowadays-I'd rather meet opportunity somewhere that's more public. I could meet opportunity in a coffee shop, but what if it works there? Well, I could suggest my grandma's basement.
-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz

James Lee Schmidt

#19. Don't neglect any tiny opportunity that comes your way. They will lead you to greater opportunities you have been expecting to win.

Israelmore Ayivor

#20. Can someone be truly good if they never have the opportunity to act badly?

Christopher Paolini

#21. I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia content.

Ryan Seacrest

#22. There's
Something
Wrong With
Your Character
If Opportunity
Controls Your
Loyalty

Trent Shelton

#23. The millennial generation and a growing number of employees are looking for more than just a paycheck. If a nonprofit could make that easy for me, they are doing me a favor. It's not just a one-way value exchange; it is an internal morale building opportunity.

Gerald Chertavian

#24. There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.

Hugh Dancy

#25. Your disability is your opportunity.

Kurt Hahn

#26. People who fail, excel at avoiding opportunity.

Adam Carolla

#27. I was captivated. My own hair was easily as long as Olga's, but it frizzed and knotted at every opportunity. When it was combed, it didn't float in perfect fans down to my shoulders.

Megan Whalen Turner

#28. It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

Lara Flynn Boyle

#29. That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

Dee Dee Myers

#30. Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.

Jennifer Granholm

#31. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

Ambrose Bierce

#32. By choosing to hang on to one's corner of freedom even in the worst situations, we can process our world with the energy of appreciation and beauty, and create an opportunity to transcend our circumstances.

Wayne W. Dyer

#33. I'll never take for granted the opportunity to put on a Dodger uniform.

Clayton Kershaw

#34. 'Privileged,' without a doubt, was one of the best work experiences of my life. Every crew member cried when we got canceled. But I was then given the opportunity to be in New York and on 'Gossip Girl' and spend the summer in a city that I've absolutely fallen in love with.

Joanna Garcia

#35. We need to prepare for the inevitable collapse that's going to happen. Yes, I say that as a politician on stage. It's going to happen. We should look it at as an opportunity, not as something to be afraid of.

Matt Shea

#36. I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.

Walter Cronkite

#37. For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

Omari Hardwick

#38. The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.

Adam Dell

#39. But from the errors of other nations let us learn wisdom, and lay hold of the present opportunity - to begin government at the right end.

Thomas Paine

#40. But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

Thomas Haden Church

#41. I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented itself. It makes me a bit uncomfortable, but at least she never sold the story before trial to the tabloids.

Catherine Crier

#42. Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

Christian Lous Lange

#43. When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jesse Jackson

#44. A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

Napoleon Hill

#45. If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.

Randall Kennedy

#46. Filming this drama made me realise how noble the nursing profession really is
from the selfless dedication to the care and love for patients. Let me take this opportunity to pay tribute to all the great nurses out there!

Rebecca Lim

#47. You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

Ann Brashares

#48. Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#49. Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.

Jack Welch

#50. If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would feel no inclination to change employment because an angel would know that no matter what we are doing, it's an opportunity to bring joy, deepen our understanding and expand our life.

Isaac Newton

#51. Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

Herbie Mann

#52. Relaxing after intense effort not only provides an opportunity to rejuvenate, but also to metabolise and embed learning.

Malti Bhojwani

#53. I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen, to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power that be, sits right here.

George W. Bush

#54. Life will never meet all of our expectations. We must nonetheless accept all disappointments without becoming bitter and cynical. We must always remain mindful of the opportunity to extend kindness and work to improve our character.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#55. Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

Benjamin Disraeli

#56. As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.

Joe Montana

#57. We ... live in a world that is too prone to the tasteless, and we need to provide an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the finest music. And, likewise, we're in a world that's so attuned to the now that we need to permit people to be more attuned to the best music of all ages.

Neal A. Maxwell

#58. How does a culture that prizes equality of opportunity explain, or indeed accommodate, its persistently marginalized people?

Nancy Isenberg

#59. Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#60. I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.

Richard Lugar

#61. Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.

Phil Lesh

#62. First Round has an opportunity: to create an entirely new kind of online publication, built for technology entrepreneurs, where they can learn how to build better companies.

Josh Kopelman

#63. All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause.

Jasper Fforde

#64. I think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I'm just trying to live large while I have the opportunity.

Hope Solo

#65. Called the Academy for Citizens of Tomorrow (ACT) Program, it focuses on giving young people the opportunity to become leaders both in their school and in the broader community.

Gregory A. Smith

#66. One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift ... and never waste such an opportunity.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#67. The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

James Salter

#68. Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.

Andy Stanley

#69. Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

Michael Arndt

#70. Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.

Henry H. Arnold

#71. I believe that no matter how many mistakes we've made; how badly we've really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected we've become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.

Dave Pelzer

#72. I pray the Pope Francis can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day when freedom can finally take root on the island country; because only then will the people of Cuba prosper and have the opportunity to live out God's plan.

Marco Rubio

#73. Good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.

George S. Clason

#74. Judging people based on what others say about them won't give us the opportunity to know them better.

Hanesa

#75. Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back.

Paulo Coelho

#76. Death is an opportunity to shed all guilt; to step away from the dogma and contrivances of mankind; and to finally be unbound from all hindrances to knowledge.

Duane Hewitt

#77. Natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being.

Richard Dawkins

#78. Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life, the opportunity to change yourself.

Jim Rohn

#79. When you give a happy couple the opportunity to talk about what makes marriage great, it's like a water spigot you can't quite turn off.

Fawn Weaver

#80. Erotic role-play is a powerful sexual outlet which can orgasmically release us from the shackles of convention and normality to express a side of ourselves we otherwise would not have opportunity to convey.

Miya Yamanouchi

#81. Don't fear failure. Instead, recognize it as an opportunity to learn.

Jennifer Cane

#82. Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.

Rajendra K. Pachauri

#83. Opportunity will always pass YOU by, until YOU open your eyes! - Kit McCann

Kit McCann

#84. All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

Magic Johnson

#85. I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation. The music is particularly incredible. Another bonus is getting the opportunity to work with some very respected actors who do not usually do voice work.

Kevin Conroy

#86. Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret and remorse and bitterness will prevent us from designing a better future with the opportunity that is before us today.

Jim Rohn

#87. Moment by moment we have the opportunity to say yes, to move into our lives and open ourselves to the adventure...

Katrina Kenison

#88. This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Calvin Coolidge

#89. People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering.
They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves

Ricardo Semler

#90. There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Thomas A. Edison

#91. Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.

Barack Obama

#92. Laziness in Prayer Another weakness that gives the devil opportunity is when our prayer life declines. For example, the apostles in the Garden of Olives abandoned Jesus when he most needed their presence and friendship. Instead

Ed Broom

#93. Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward.

Lester Levenson

#94. I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.

Kristen Stewart

#95. I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.

J. Christopher Burch

#96. For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.

Steve Aoki

#97. One thing we did well the whole tournament was keep fighting. And no matter what happened the point before, missed opportunity, missed easy shot, we just played the next point and blocked it out of our mind. That's why we're the champs.

Daniel Nestor

#98. I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

Lance Ito

#99. Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.

Widad Akreyi

#100. I like to call the Department of Labor the Department of Opportunity, and that means opportunity for everyone - no matter whom you love.

Thomas Perez